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Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

Article URL: https://blog.google/security/chrome-stronger-with-every-update/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120097

Points: 8

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DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update

Article URL: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/updates/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119559

Points: 179

# Comments: 72

Show HN: Gander, an Android file viewer that asks for no permissions at all

Hi HN,

I built an Android file viewer that opens PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images, video, audio, Markdown and code, and asks for no permissions at all.

I have always been uneasy about opening files people send me. On Android you either install a 400 MB office suite and sign in or use a small free viewer that wants storage access and ends up uploading your file to a server to render it. Also the hassle of having to download different apps for different file formats was really annoying.

Gander holds no permissions, not even INTERNET so the OS itself guarantees the file cannot leave the phone.

PDFs use Pdfium, media uses Media3, and Office formats are rendered by bundled JS libraries in a WebView and so no request goes to any server.

It is a viewer only. Complex PowerPoint decks come out approximately right, spreadsheet charts are not drawn, and old binary .doc and .ppt are unsupported. I'll work on it as issues come up :P

It is 14 MB, MIT licensed and uploaded on Github releases.

Do try it! I would love some feedback especially on files that render badly or need new support.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119425

Points: 33

# Comments: 13

Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like?

Hi HN! We’re Akilan and Miguel, the creators of MarbleOS.

The inspiration for Marble comes from the GUI work at Xerox PARC, the 1984 Macintosh, and later NeXTSTEP, which became the foundation for Mac OS X. Before GUIs, interacting with a computer was limited to strange terminal commands:

C:\> DIR

C:\> COPY FILE.TXT A:

You had to remember the command, syntax, paths, and parameters.

The GUI made those capabilities visible. Instead of remembering commands, you could point at files, drag them, click buttons, and select actions from menus. It didn't necessarily make entirely new things possible; it just made existing capabilities much easier to understand and use. We feel like AI is still somewhere around this command-line stage.

Even though the strict syntax has been replaced with natural language, the interaction can still be quite stiff and depend on heavily recall. Tools like Claude Cowork still look surprisingly terminal-like: /skill-name [param1] [param2]. The parameters are written in natural language, but the user still needs to know the capabilities that exist, and how to invoke it. Command-line flags and arguments have just been replaced with tools, skills, and context.

ChatGPT works very well for asking questions, but we aren't convinced that it's the final interface for delegating work across multiple agents. A blank text box and a list of chat threads feels limiting. An agent's capabilities are mostly invisible. With Marble, we're exploring an interface that treats AI more like a workspace than another chat app. Each delegated task becomes a card. Multiple jobs can sit next to each other and run at once. Files, tools, and finished artifacts are visible at once. Before a task runs, Marble also shows which tools it expects to use. The basic idea is that the user should not have to hold the entire structure of the task in their head. And the result should be something directly usable, like a spreadsheet, PowerPoint, or other file, rather than something buried in a transcript.

Marble is our attempt at exploring interaction models beyond the chat box. The product is mainly for people who already use ChatGPT or Claude, but haven’t really adopted agent workflows yet. We’ve found that when the tools and possible actions are made more visible, people start delegating work they would not have thought to do through normal chat.

The site includes a downloadable beta if you want to try it. Does Marble feel like a genuinely novel interface?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119274

Points: 41

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